Melinda Plastas
Biographic Data
| ID | 961883 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Melinda Plastas |
| GIVEN NAMES | Melinda |
| FAMILY NAME | Plastas |
| SIGNATURE | PLASTAS M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Bates College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Scattered and Fugitive Things
The Desegregation of Public Libraries in the Jim Crow South
Libraries matter. They provide space for learning, community building, and solace. Yet access to libraries has never been equal. In The Desegregation of Public Libraries in the Jim Crow South Wayne A. Wiegand and Shirley A. Wiegand offer an insightful and sweeping history of the ways Jim Crow practices shaped libraries and the multifocal efforts of black citizens to overturn racial segregation. Although library protests are often in the shadows o…
Brutality and Brotherhood
This essay situates Baldwin's writing within the political climate of the early 1970s and within a period discourse that understood prisons as important sites of political struggle. We show that, for Baldwin, prisons elucidate the historic and intimate interplay of masculinity, sexuality, and race. They constitute at the same time sites of homosexual/homosocial closeness and love, as well as masculine violence and hate. We argue that Baldwin's wr…
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Scientific racism bedeviled U.S. society during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Challenges to scientific racism came from different corners of modern society. Emily Greene Balch, Wellesley economist and prominent leader of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, served as a persistent critic of early twentieth‐century racism. A study of her writing on immigration, U.S. democracy, and U.S. foreign policy on Haiti and …
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Scientific racism bedeviled U.S. society during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Challenges to scientific racism came from different corners of modern society. Emily Greene Balch, Wellesley economist and prominent leader of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, served as a persistent critic of early twentieth‐century racism. A study of her writing on immigration, U.S. democracy, and U.S. foreign policy on Haiti and …
Brutality and Brotherhood
This essay situates Baldwin's writing within the political climate of the early 1970s and within a period discourse that understood prisons as important sites of political struggle. We show that, for Baldwin, prisons elucidate the historic and intimate interplay of masculinity, sexuality, and race. They constitute at the same time sites of homosexual/homosocial closeness and love, as well as masculine violence and hate. We argue that Baldwin's wr…
The Desegregation of Public Libraries in the Jim Crow South
Libraries matter. They provide space for learning, community building, and solace. Yet access to libraries has never been equal. In The Desegregation of Public Libraries in the Jim Crow South Wayne A. Wiegand and Shirley A. Wiegand offer an insightful and sweeping history of the ways Jim Crow practices shaped libraries and the multifocal efforts of black citizens to overturn racial segregation. Although library protests are often in the shadows o…
Scattered and Fugitive Things
Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Politics (2 works) · Alterity (1 work) · Archaeology (1 work) · Atlanta (1 work) · Canadian Identity and History (1 work)